The winter is almost at the end, but there's always a winter coming. Right now I enjoy the sun, the fact that it's daylight when I leave for work in the morning and when I drive home again. Spring is getting close. You always need a hat, and since I actually signed up for a hat along at Uformelt.net, but still haven't knitted one, it was about time to knit some hats. Hats are a fast project, and since the challenge for February was to finish the right number of projects according to Fibonacci, hats is a good idea. With these two hats I managed to finish 8 projects in February and that's a Fibonacci number. Yeah! The first hat is the January pattern in the hat along, Pigwidgeon. It was easy and fun to knit. I used scrap yarn from Kos, Tulliball and from Wollmeise, but i forgot the names of the colors, since I lost the label.

Do you remember Freddy Krueger? He wasn't a nice guy, but he had a nice sweater. A girl at my team wanted a Krueger-sweater, and since a striped sweater isn't that hard to knit, I started on one. I used Drops Alpaca and I just cast on number of stitches and measured around my own body. She really wanted a boat neck, but since I like raglan and don't really like knitting back and forth, well, then raglan it is. It's incredible how much faster it actually is to knit a sweater in stockinette stitch when it's stripes than when it's just one color. Probably all in my head, but it definitely seems like it's a lot faster to knit stripes. It might have to do with the fact that I can count rows in one color, then change and count again. Just as it is a well known fact that if you are almost out of yarn, you have to knit faster to make the yarn last longer. If you knit slow, then you'll run out of yarn faster.

It's hard to take picture of oneself wearing a sweater. But I didn't have the patience to wait until somebody who could take a picture came home or to wait for daylight. Maybe I'll manage to take pictures of the sweater in daylight later, if I haven't delivered the sweater before that happens though. The receiver wanted to have holes in the arms to pull them down, so I made holes too. Not that hard really.

A friend bought this pattern and asked me to knit them to her. Not always fun to knit mittens, and especially when I often need to knit four mittens to have one pair. Two left mittens are not always that practical. This pattern didn't make it that difficult to make one right mitten and one left mitten. Maybe it was because I always thought: I don't want to make four mittens this time! Or maybe it was just well written? It helped no matter what it was. I had to knit the first part an extra time, but that's because I used a needle size too big the first time. I used needles 2,5 mm and PT Petter Superwash. They turned out real firm and thick and warm. I hope the receiver will be happy.

When I was a kid my favorite song was Living Doll by Cliff Richard. The song popped back into my brain after I finished this sweater. The sweater is quite small, since the last time I saw my nephew he was very tiny. A couple of days ago I saw some pictures of him again. He has grown. I'm really not sure if he can fit into the small sweater I made him. But I thought, if he's grown out of it, it will fit either a doll or a teddybear the kids have. The sweater is knitted in baby wool from Viking. I have never used the yarn before, but it was ok to knit with. It might be a bit slippery, but it's soft and nice. I swapped it with a friend on the yarn swapping night. I still have some yarn left of it, since this sweater turned out a bit too small. The pattern is just made up by me, but I should have followed a pattern to get the right size.

Even more Marius pattern, and I think it's more to come in the nearest future. A colleague wished for a sweater with Marius pattern and with the rib. It's really no fun knitting 2 knit, 2 purl all the way and for that long. It's actually real boring, but the result turned out pretty nice though. And it actually fit too after I knitted in a couple of extra cm on the yoke. I used raglan and I didn't have to knit the pattern back and forth, which is if possible even more boring than the rib. The sweater is knitted in Drops Alpaca and is light and soft. I used needles 3,5 mm. My daughter thought the sweater was so nice that she wished for one too in exactly the same colors. Since I'm always afraid of running out of yarn, I have enough yarn to knit her one. It1s not really a fun sweater to knit, but ten-year-old girls who really wants mum to knit her a sweater usually gets one.

I was supposed to give my friend's son a Marius sweater for Christmas, and I started knitting it in good time before Christmas. The only problem was that the baby decided to grow real fast, and before Christmas he was bigger than the sweater. I put it away for a while, but finished it now. Not that much to finish. I'm not sure what size it is, but I think and hope it will fit small people at the age of six months or around that age. I just have to wait for someone to fit the sweater. I used Malsen & Mor. The yarn I like to knit with, gives nice products but smells awful. I thought I had knitted enough projects with the Marius pattern to remember it by heart, but nope. I didn't have the pattern to look at when I knitted this sweater, and it shows. I discovered it when I was done, but I didn't want to frog it. Can you spot it?

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